Sophie Barrett-Brown comments on the latest EU migration statistics

23 August 2019

Senior Partner and Head of UK Practice Sophie Barrett-Brown provides a detailed overview of the latest ONS and Home Office immigration statistics for Open Access Government.

Sophie highlights the ‘abysmally low’ number of applicants that have been approved under the brand new Innovator immigration category, the reduction in overall net migration to the UK, and provides an in-depth analysis of the latest report on the EU Settlement Scheme showing comprehensive data on grants of ‘settled status’ and ‘pre-settled status’.

Read the full Open Access Government article here.

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Sophie Barrett-Brown

Senior Partner and Head of UK Practice

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